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Windows 7: Desktop toolbar on the Taskbar causing headache

I chose to have the desktop toolbar on the task bar as you can see from the picture below but I'm having two problems:

1. When I click on the arrows part it shows me a list of the stuff on my desktop but I can't scroll down the list using my laptop touch-pad scroll bar (which works on every other application). So I have to navigate to the bottom all the time and click on the down arrow (very annoying!).
2. I want to get rid of the 'Desktop' written in the white text if possible. thx

I chose to have the desktop toolbar on the task bar as you can see from the picture below but I'm having two problems:

1. When I click on the arrows part it shows me a list of the stuff on my desktop but I can't scroll down the list using my laptop touch-pad scroll bar (which works on every other application). So I have to navigate to the bottom all the time and click on the down arrow (very annoying!).
2. I want to get rid of the 'Desktop' written in the white text if possible. thx

right click on taskbar and un check lock taskbar
then right click on the seperator next to the text that says desktop. then uncheack show text.

do the up down keys work to scroll down the list?

1. When I unchecked 'show text', a little libraries shortcut appeared which can't be deleted (I tried to right-click but no delete option given, also cannot move seperator anymore to the right). See pic below. How do I get rid of this thing!

2. Yes I can use the up/down keyboard keys to scroll but I'd love to use the touchpad scroll function instead.

go to the folder for the desktop toolbar and choose organise then properties then customize... change folder picture. Best I can think of for that.
not sure about the mouse pad. have to get back on that.

go to the folder for the desktop toolbar and choose organise then properties then customize... change folder picture. Best I can think of for that.
not sure about the mouse pad. have to get back on that.

I might have a theory about the mouse pad. My laptop is a Dell M1530 which is quite recent but the mousepad drivers only go up to Vista. I installed these Vista drivers fine on Win7 32-bit(without choosing Vista compatability mode) so everything was fine. But since this desktop toolbar is a new feature of Win7 I'm thinking maybe the drivers aren't optimised or something?

And I don't understand about this changing picture of folder thing. No idea where to click to do this and anyway wouldn't it just change the pic instead of removing the thing?!

I do not understand this whole story. When I click on my toolbars chevrons, all the entries appear. No need to scroll. Did you create the toolbar from a seperate folder (which you should). The folder holds the shortcuts and can reside in any place. Then you can also name/rename the folder to e.g. just one letter or a dot.

Indeed, any folder qualifies. It is just a matter of space on the taskbar. It is prudent to choose short folder names because the names determine the amount of space the toolbar entry will take on the taskbar.

Taskbar Toolbar showing 3 small rows using Large Icons 2-line TaskbarThis references: https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/255629-quick-launch-bar-icons-dont-wrap-even-though-there-room.html - a post by chillz which discovers a "bug" with the taskbar not resetting the row-sizing for toolbars when dragging the taskbar to the left then back to the bottom.
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